{"investigation":{"slug":"fx-winning-david-merino-quintana","entity_name":"FX Winning / David Merino Quintana","trust_score":0,"severity_base":null,"score_modifier":-13,"confidence":0.88,"status":"published","content_type":"investigation","summary":"FX Winning (FxWinning Ltd) was a Hong Kong-registered online forex/crypto investment brokerage, founded around April 2020 by Canarian businessman David Merino Quintana, that promised monthly returns through an algorithmic trading program before freezing withdrawals in February 2023 and shutting down entirely in June 2023. Spanish, French and US authorities have separately pursued the company and Merino: a Miami-Dade civil court entered an $85 million-plus judgment against Merino and a co-defendant in March 2025, Spain's Guardia Civil dismantled an affiliated network in June 2025 (Operation Borrelli), and Merino was reportedly arrested in Dubai in June 2026 pending a possible extradition process whose outcome could not be confirmed from available sources.","sections":[{"content":"FX Winning, operated through FxWinning Ltd and registered in Hong Kong (some registries list a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines registration), marketed itself as a foreign exchange brokerage that converted client cryptocurrency deposits to US dollars and traded them through an automated algorithm, promising consistent monthly returns. Reported figures for the promised return rate vary by source, from roughly 3-5% per month (as described in Spanish Guardia Civil reporting) to 8-15% or more per month (as described by US plaintiffs' law firm Silver Miller). The company reportedly operated from an office in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, with additional offices or presences described in Hong Kong, Miami (Florida), Cyprus and Dubai. According to Spanish press reporting citing a Guardia Civil investigative report, the business began operating around April 2020. Its founder, director and, according to the same Guardia Civil report, sole shareholder was David Merino Quintana, a businessman from the Canary Islands. He is reported to have formally stepped back from the company around 2021 while, according to Spanish investigators, continuing to direct it. Related marketing/affiliate entities named in reporting include 'We Are Turbo', which Spanish media say marketed FX Winning's product in Spain.","heading":"What FX Winning Was","sources":[{"url":"https://silvermillerlaw.com/current-investigations/fxwinning-ltd-and-david-merino/","name":"Silver Miller Law - FXWinning Ltd. and David Merino investigation page","type":"other","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.eldebate.com/espana/20250628/audiencia-nacional-envia-prision-dos-detenidos-estafa-piramidal-criptomonedas_311907.html","name":"El Debate - Audiencia Nacional envía a prisión a dos detenidos por estafa piramidal con criptomonedas","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://theobjective.com/economia/2025-06-27/15-000-afectados-criptoestafa-460-millones-las-palmas/","name":"The Objective - Se elevan a 15.000 los afectados por la criptoestafa dirigida desde Las Palmas de Gran Canaria","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://asest.es/story/david-merino-empresario-canario/","name":"asest.es - David Merino, empresario canario","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"According to Silver Miller's investigation page and multiple civil-litigation accounts, FXWinning began blocking customer withdrawals around February 2023, telling clients the delay was due to a Know Your Customer/Anti-Money Laundering compliance audit; withdrawal processing times grew from under a week to over two weeks, according to one lawsuit summary. The restrictions continued for months with limited explanation. In June 2023, the company shut down entirely. A closure notice attributed to FxWinning Limited and reproduced in a broker-review aggregator stated that trading would close on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, with no new deposits accepted from that date and withdrawals available only until June 30, 2023; the authenticity of this notice has not been independently verified by AVOID.NET. Numerous customers reported being unable to recover deposited funds after the shutdown, which forms the basis of the subsequent US civil litigation described below.","heading":"Withdrawal Restrictions and Shutdown (2023)","sources":[{"url":"https://silvermillerlaw.com/current-investigations/fxwinning-ltd-and-david-merino/","name":"Silver Miller Law - FXWinning Ltd. and David Merino investigation page","type":"other","credibility":2},{"url":"https://blocktribune.com/court-defaults-key-defendants-in-alleged-fxwinning-investment-scam-lawsuit/","name":"Blocktribune - Court Defaults Key Defendants in Alleged FXWinning Investment Scam Lawsuit","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.wikifx.com/en/dealer/safety/fxwinning-safe-or-scam","name":"WikiFX - FxWinning Safe or Scam","type":"community_report","credibility":3}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"Multiple civil lawsuits were filed against FxWinning Ltd. and individuals associated with it in Florida courts following the 2023 shutdown. In approximately late July 2023, a group of investors led by Cody Kerns, represented by the South Florida firm Sanchez Fischer, sued FxWinning Limited along with David Merino and Rafael Brito Cutie (described as owners), Renan da Rocha Gomes Bastos (described as the company's de facto operations manager in the US), and Jonathan Lopez and Julian Kuschner (who allegedly held themselves out as partners in FXWinning), seeking more than $28 million and alleging a conspiracy to commit fraud and deceptive trade practices. Separately, in 2023 CFT Solutions, LLC and its principal Renan de Rocha Gomes Bastos sued FxWinning Ltd. in Miami-Dade County civil court seeking more than $80 million held in company accounts, alleging breach of contract after withdrawals were refused beginning in February 2023; a related federal docket (case No. 1:23-cv-23139) was also filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. On August 1, 2024, Miami-Dade Judge Lisa Walsh granted default judgments against FxWinning's then-CEO Rafael Brito Cutie and against Olga Huzhva (described as a Cyprus resident and Brito Cutie's wife) for failing to respond; the judge denied a default motion against David Merino, who was representing himself and denied involvement with FxWinning, giving him additional time to respond. According to a December 2024 press release from law firm Nelson Mullins, a jury trial found FxWinning liable to the CFT plaintiffs. On March 7, 2025, Judge Lisa Walsh entered a final judgment of more than $85 million in the CFT plaintiffs' favor against Rafael Brito Cutie and David Merino Quintana, identified in the release as 'two principals of FxWinning.'","heading":"US Civil Litigation and Court Judgments","sources":[{"url":"https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/investors-sue-5-owners-of-defunct-broker-fxwinning-for-28m-allege-fraud/","name":"Finance Magnates - Investors Sue 5 Owners of Defunct Broker FxWinning for $28M, Allege Fraud","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/180652","name":"Newsfile Corp - Lawsuit Against Forex Broker FXWinning, Is Being Globally Pursued by Renan Bastos Of CFT Solutions","type":"other","credibility":2},{"url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lawsuit-against-forex-broker-fxwinning-194400313.html","name":"Yahoo Finance (Newsfile) - Lawsuit Against Forex Broker FXWinning","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://blocktribune.com/court-defaults-key-defendants-in-alleged-fxwinning-investment-scam-lawsuit/","name":"Blocktribune - Court Defaults Key Defendants in Alleged FXWinning Investment Scam Lawsuit","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.nelsonmullins.com/insights/news/press_releases/nelson-mullins-secures-usd85m-judgement-in-global-crypto-forex-fraud-scheme","name":"Nelson Mullins - Nelson Mullins Secures USD85M Judgement In Global Crypto Forex Fraud Scheme","type":"official","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flsd-1_23-cv-23139/pdf/USCOURTS-flsd-1_23-cv-23139-2.pdf","name":"U.S. District Court, S.D. Fla. - Case No. 1:23-cv-23139 docket document (GovInfo)","type":"court_filing","credibility":1}],"severity":"critical"},{"content":"Spain's Guardia Civil, through its Unidad Central Operativa (UCO), investigated FX Winning as an alleged international cryptocurrency pyramid scheme run through a Hong Kong-registered company. In late June 2025, in an operation reported in Spanish press as 'Operación Borrelli,' the Guardia Civil carried out searches in Madrid and the Canary Islands and detained several suspects. On Friday, June 27, 2025, Judge Antonio Piña of the Audiencia Nacional's Juzgado Central de Instrucción No. 6 questioned four of the detained suspects; two were released, and the judge ordered the other two into pretrial detention without bail — one described as responsible for recruiting clients and the other as a co-founder of the company responsible for its trading software. Two individuals described by investigators as the scheme's main leaders, including David Merino, were reported to be living in the United Arab Emirates and were not available for questioning at that time. The Guardia Civil's UCO identified Merino as 'el líder y principal ideólogo de la organización criminal' (the leader and main ideologue of the criminal organization) and, according to Spanish press citing the UCO report, as the person who laundered scheme funds. The Audiencia Nacional is pursuing the case for alleged fraud, misappropriation, money laundering, and participation in a criminal organization. Related proceedings were reported to be open in the United States, Estonia, Peru and New Caledonia.","heading":"Spanish Criminal Investigation: Operation Borrelli","sources":[{"url":"https://www.eldebate.com/espana/20250628/audiencia-nacional-envia-prision-dos-detenidos-estafa-piramidal-criptomonedas_311907.html","name":"El Debate - Audiencia Nacional envía a prisión a dos detenidos por estafa piramidal con criptomonedas","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://theobjective.com/economia/2025-06-27/15-000-afectados-criptoestafa-460-millones-las-palmas/","name":"The Objective - Se elevan a 15.000 los afectados por la criptoestafa dirigida desde Las Palmas de Gran Canaria","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://rtvc.es/se-elevan-a-15-000-los-afectados-por-la-criptoestafa-dirigida-desde-las-palmas-27-junio-2025/","name":"RTVC - Se elevan a 15.000 los afectados por la criptoestafa dirigida desde Las Palmas de Gran Canaria","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://asest.es/story/david-merino-empresario-canario/","name":"asest.es - David Merino, empresario canario","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"critical"},{"content":"Spanish-language press reported that David Merino Quintana was detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, June 1, 2026, in connection with the FX Winning investigation. AVOID.NET reviewed multiple reports of the arrest and found no source — including Spanish, French and Latin American outlets covering the story — that mentions an Interpol Red Notice as the basis for the arrest or extradition process; this detail should be treated as unconfirmed. Reporting on the extradition process states that an arrest alone does not guarantee that a suspect will be handed over, and that Spain is generally reported to have a window of roughly 15 to 40 days to submit formal extradition documentation to the UAE, with the outcome depending on Emirati courts and bilateral arrangements. AVOID.NET could not confirm, from sources available at the time of writing, whether Spain's extradition request was filed, granted, or still pending, nor could it confirm any claim that Merino's continued detention stems from a separate, unrelated legal matter; readers should treat his current custodial and extradition status as unresolved pending further reporting. In March 2026, prior to the reported arrest, Merino had appeared in an online video denying that he had kept any client's money and placing responsibility on other figures in his circle, particularly José Lucas Cruz [Barrera]. AVOID.NET found no on-the-record public response from Cruz to these allegations in the sources reviewed.","heading":"Arrest of David Merino Quintana in Dubai (June 2026)","sources":[{"url":"https://www.criptonoticias.com/sucesos/detenido-david-merino-fx-winning-espana/","name":"Criptonoticias - Detenido David Merino de FX Winning en España","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.publimetro.com.mx/noticias/2026/06/03/detienen-en-dubai-a-david-merino-el-cerebro-del-criptofraude-millonario-fx-winning/","name":"Publimetro - Detienen en Dubái a David Merino, el 'cerebro' del criptofraude millonario FX Winning","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://cryptoactu.com/fx-winning-arrestation-chef-ponzi/","name":"CryptoActu - FX Winning: arrestation du chef du Ponzi","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"France's securities regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), added the domains fxwinning.net and fxwinning.pro to its public blacklist of unauthorized financial services providers on April 14, 2023 ('14/04/2023' per the AMF's own listing), stating the entity offers financial services or products without authorization. Secondary reports, not independently confirmed by AVOID.NET against the regulator's own primary record, state that Spain's securities regulator, the CNMV, separately warned that FXWinning was not authorized to provide investment services in Spain, with one broker-review source placing an initial CNMV warning around March 2021 (sources disagree on the exact day, citing either March 8 or March 10, 2021) and a second source placing a further CNMV warning covering fxwinning.pro/FXWINNING LIMITED around February 2023. Because these CNMV dates rely only on lower-tier aggregator sites rather than a primary regulatory record AVOID.NET could access directly, they should be treated as plausible but unconfirmed, and are given only month/year precision here. AVOID.NET could not independently verify reported claims that Italy's CONSOB blacklisted FX Winning or ordered internet providers to block its website, or that Norway's Finanstilsynet or Belgium's FSMA issued warnings specifically naming FXWinning; none of these claims are included as findings on this page due to lack of a verifiable source.","heading":"Regulatory Warnings","sources":[{"url":"https://www.amf-france.org/en/warnings/blacklists/forex/fxwinningnet","name":"AMF France - Blacklist entry for fxwinning.net","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.amf-france.org/en/warnings/blacklists/forex/fxwinningpro","name":"AMF France - Blacklist entry for fxwinning.pro","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://finantres.com/fx-winning-opiniones","name":"Finantres - ¿FX Winning es seguro o una estafa? Opiniones reales","type":"community_report","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.fastbull.com/brokersview/brokers/fxwinning","name":"FastBull BrokersView - FxWinning","type":"community_report","credibility":3},{"url":"https://www.wikifx.com/en/dealer/safety/fxwinning-safe-or-scam","name":"WikiFX - FxWinning Safe or Scam","type":"community_report","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"Estimates of FX Winning's total scale vary considerably across sources and have changed over time. Spain's Guardia Civil initially described more than 5,000 victims across approximately 30 countries with worldwide losses exceeding 460 million euros, and approximately 500 victims in Spain with losses of about 39 million euros; later Spanish press reporting, citing victims' associations, raised the global victim estimate to approximately 15,000 investors while keeping the loss figure near 460 million euros, a tripling of the initial victim count that the Spanish outlet The Objective itself flagged as notable. US civil litigation describes damages in the tens of millions of dollars (a $28 million claim in one suit, more than $80 million in withheld funds in another, and an $85 million-plus final judgment in a third). One secondary news aggregator reported a considerably larger alleged fraud figure of 'more than $2.8 billion' without explaining the basis for that number, and a French-language aggregator cited an unconfirmed claim, attributed to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, of $100 billion in transaction volume connected to a parallel US/Mexico investigation. AVOID.NET was unable to verify the $2.8 billion or $100 billion figures against a primary source and flags them as low-confidence outlier figures rather than established facts; the figures most consistently corroborated across multiple sources are the roughly 460 million euro global loss estimate and the roughly 39 million euro/500-victim Spain-specific figures from the Guardia Civil investigation.","heading":"Scale of the Alleged Scheme and Data Discrepancies","sources":[{"url":"https://theobjective.com/economia/2025-06-27/15-000-afectados-criptoestafa-460-millones-las-palmas/","name":"The Objective - Se elevan a 15.000 los afectados por la criptoestafa dirigida desde Las Palmas de Gran Canaria","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://blocktribune.com/court-defaults-key-defendants-in-alleged-fxwinning-investment-scam-lawsuit/","name":"Blocktribune - Court Defaults Key Defendants in Alleged FXWinning Investment Scam Lawsuit","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://cryptoactu.com/fx-winning-arrestation-chef-ponzi/","name":"CryptoActu - FX Winning: arrestation du chef du Ponzi","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"Several individuals besides David Merino Quintana have been named in litigation or investigative reporting connected to FX Winning. Rafael Brito Cutie, described in US litigation as FxWinning's later CEO and a Cuban citizen reported to live between Dubai and Limassol, Cyprus, was named alongside Merino as a defendant in the Miami-Dade civil suits and is, with Merino, subject to the March 2025 $85 million-plus judgment. Olga Huzhva, described as Brito Cutie's wife and a Cyprus resident, was separately defaulted in the same litigation. Renan de Rocha Gomes Bastos (also rendered Renan da Rocha Gomes Bastos) is named as a lead plaintiff, through CFT Solutions LLC, in US civil litigation, and is separately alleged by other plaintiffs to have acted as the company's de facto US operations manager — a discrepancy in his described role that this page notes rather than resolves. Jonathan Lopez and Julian Kuschner are named in one 2023 lawsuit as having allegedly held themselves out as Merino's partners in FXWinning. José Lucas Cruz [Barrera] is named by Spanish investigators' UCO report, according to Spanish press, as a person allegedly interposed by Merino in an Estonian company, Deumcorp OÜ, that is said to have received client-deposit-linked transfers; Merino's March 2026 video publicly blamed Cruz, alongside an individual identified as Martin Nappa, for diverting client funds. AVOID.NET found no corroborated, on-the-record response from either Cruz or Nappa to these allegations and treats Merino's allegations against them, like his denial of personal wrongdoing, as an unverified claim by an accused party rather than an established fact. A claim naming an additional co-defendant, 'Patrick Schilling Fuentes,' could not be corroborated by any source AVOID.NET located beyond a single low-quality, uncorroborated reference, and has been omitted from this page.","heading":"Associated Individuals","sources":[{"url":"https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/180652","name":"Newsfile Corp - Lawsuit Against Forex Broker FXWinning, Is Being Globally Pursued by Renan Bastos Of CFT Solutions","type":"other","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/investors-sue-5-owners-of-defunct-broker-fxwinning-for-28m-allege-fraud/","name":"Finance Magnates - Investors Sue 5 Owners of Defunct Broker FxWinning for $28M, Allege Fraud","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://blocktribune.com/court-defaults-key-defendants-in-alleged-fxwinning-investment-scam-lawsuit/","name":"Blocktribune - Court Defaults Key Defendants in Alleged FXWinning Investment Scam Lawsuit","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.criptonoticias.com/sucesos/detenido-david-merino-fx-winning-espana/","name":"Criptonoticias - Detenido David Merino de FX Winning en España","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://asest.es/story/david-merino-empresario-canario/","name":"asest.es - David Merino, empresario canario","type":"other","credibility":3}],"severity":"medium"}],"timeline":[{"date":"2020-04","event":"FX Winning reportedly begins operating as a crypto-forex investment platform, based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.","source":"The Objective","source_url":"https://theobjective.com/economia/2025-06-27/15-000-afectados-criptoestafa-460-millones-las-palmas/"},{"date":"2021-03","event":"Spain's CNMV reportedly warns that FXWinning is not authorized to provide investment services in Spain (exact day disputed between secondary sources).","source":"Finantres (secondary, unconfirmed against CNMV primary record)","source_url":"https://finantres.com/fx-winning-opiniones"},{"date":"2023-02","event":"FXWinning begins blocking customer withdrawals, citing a compliance (KYC/AML) audit.","source":"Silver Miller Law","source_url":"https://silvermillerlaw.com/current-investigations/fxwinning-ltd-and-david-merino/"},{"date":"2023-04-14","event":"France's AMF adds fxwinning.net and fxwinning.pro to its blacklist of unauthorized financial services providers.","source":"AMF France","source_url":"https://www.amf-france.org/en/warnings/blacklists/forex/fxwinningnet","date_evidence":"Publication date listed on the AMF website: 14/04/2023"},{"date":"2023-06","event":"FXWinning ceases operations entirely; 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